On May 5, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Christopher Patterson wrote:
In terms of my next steps, I have some minor tweaks to knock out tonight, but tomorrow I'll switch over to LivableStreets tomorrow. Nick, you and I probably need to check in soon about when it makes sense to switch to using Trac for tracking open / new issues, versus editing http://www.openplans.org/projects/streets/woonerf-v2-production-status - not a rush yet, but once we start getting feedback I think it'll be important.
Yes, I agree -- I think we're about at the point where we need to start ticketing things to keep track. You + Phil/Rollie can use the wiki page as an overall guide, but we'll definitely want to start using trac more for tech issues and refinements. We can use the original Woonerf 1 milestone in the LS trac.
Re: strategy for beginning work on LS -- I would like it if we could just apply the new wrapper by Friday (interior content should more or less fall in line w/ opencore.css), so that we begin to get a sense of how things will connect when we redeploy. CCing the streets-dev list about that, to make sure that everything is good to go for a redeploy of stage.livablestreets.com, stage.streetsblog.org, and stage.streetfilms.org on Friday, as per the calendar.
We also need to decide how we're going to keep the look & feel in sync (my gut says having livablestreets set up to take the woonerf style.css and fixes-old-ie.css as SVN externals may be the way to go, but I'm sure the dev team will have good input there).
Good point -- what we were doing in the past is directly referencing the streetsblog CSS, which is brittle and sometimes confusing. Dev guys?
For folks who aren't already aware, I've started a CSS style guide at http://www.openplans.org/projects/topp-design/css-style-guide - if there are conventions you use or come up with that could help the team, please add them. I have been trying to adhere to those patterns as we build out woonerf, although there's probably at least a little bit of cleanup that will need to happen to make the current CSS more consistent.
Awesome! Thanks Chris -- I'm sure this will come in really handy, and it was one of the things that Rollie and I were most excited about when we hired you :)
Nick